Shelley's CENCI : Scorpions Ringed with Fire /

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Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater, a historical oddity, a neglected masterpiece. Derived from the dark legends of one of Rome�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curran, Stuart (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1970.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cenci, Beatrice, > 1577-1599.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, > 1792-1822. > Cenci.
Cenci, Beatrice, > 1577-1599 > In literature.
Cenci (Shelley, Percy Bysshe)
Literature.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
DRAMA > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Italy > Rome.
Rome (Italy) > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • The Poem
  • I. Shelley and His Critics
  • II. Tradition and an Individual Talent
  • III. The Spectrum of Character
  • IV. Imagery and the Play of the Passions
  • V. The Tragic Resolution
  • THE PLAY
  • VI. Shelley and the Romantic Theater
  • VII. Singularly Fitted for the Stage
  • VIII. The Structure of Non-Action
  • Index

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